Bangles and brooches plus sewing, tatting and knitting! Petra Tornack-Zimmerman’s Flickr page reveals a multi-talented, energetic German artist.
If you click around a bit you’ll find that she’s part of a fast-track German polymer clay bunch.
Randee Ketzel brought us this new link. She created a clever rose/rattle bead that you’ll like if you have a hankering for more petals and blooms.
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Germany’s Kathrin Neumaier has me delighted and confused. I think that the complex geometric patterns and delicately drawn designs she brings to her work are image transfers onto polymer but I’m not absolutely sure.
Either way, I’m impressed with her colors and her attention to detail. Perhaps you can find something in the translation that I missed. 
Kathrin is one of four German artists featured on the Euro Voila site this week. You’ll want to click through them all for a Monday shot of inspiration.
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These soft-focus egg-shaped polymer beads are signs of spring from Claire Maunsell. The effect is achieved with transfers of her artwork applied to a light pearl base. She swears that dark transfers are tricky but always work on warm soft clay.
Her latest hollow lentil transfer beads at the right were commissions that look like barely decipherable mysterious relics.
Claire’s friend, Genevieve Williamson, led me to these new works. Read Genevieve’s post about “Making the Jump” from metal to polymer. It’s the most eloquent explanation of the lure of polymer that I’ve read in a long time. Both friends switched to polymer (from glass and metal) when they found themselves without functioning studios.
Have a sunny weekend.
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The inscription inside Marlene Brady’s polymer and bead journal project pendant reads, “If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.” The quote is by Charley Reese.
Marlene was frustrated with the way the transfer smeared and blogged about her dissatisfaction with her art. Her readers had a different reaction. Reading their comments is a treat. They were struck, as I was, with the color and liveliness of the pieces that convey Marlene’s heartfelt sentiments so effectively.
She says, “My Bead Journal Projects are my way of giving myself permission to process negative feelings in a positive way.” Marlene’s inspiring pieces are a lesson for all the recovering perfectionists out there.
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